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Situation in southern Gaza ‘horrific and apocalpytic’: WFP

10 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Situation in southern Gaza ‘horrific and apocalpytic’: WFP 31 May 2024 © WFP/Ali Jadallah Thousands of Gazan families are evacuating Rafah City after Israeli airstrikes. Aid corridors in southern Gaza must be fully opened to allow the entry of food, fuel and other desperately needed relief items, a senior official with the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday…

Global AI summit tackles misinformation and deepfakes with a little ‘bot’ of help

10 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Global AI summit tackles misinformation and deepfakes with a little ‘bot’ of help 31 May 2024 Служба новостей ООН/A. Успенский Фрагмент экспозиции саммита «ИИ во благо». The thorny issue of how to protect the unwary from deepfakes was just one of the key issues in the spotlight at a UN conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) held in Geneva this week, where a staggering 25,000…

World News in Brief: Updates on worsening crises in Gaza, South Sudan, DR Congo

10 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Updates on worsening crises in Gaza, South Sudan, DR Congo 31 May 2024 © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba Children in Gaza collect cardboard to light fires for cooking. Continued hostilities and evacuation orders in Gaza have led to the closure of key humanitarian facilities in Rafah, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Friday…

Sudan: ‘Noose of war’ tightens on civilians in El Fasher, UN official warns

10 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan: ‘Noose of war’ tightens on civilians in El Fasher, UN official warns 30 May 2024 © UNICEF/Shehzad Noorani A mother walks with her children to their shelter at an IDP camp in North Darfur.  The top UN aid official in Sudan warned on Thursday that “the noose of war is tightening its stranglehold” on civilians in El Fasher, expressing her profound distress at the dire humanitarian…

AI for Good Summit: Digital and technological divide is no longer acceptable

10 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home AI for Good Summit: Digital and technological divide is no longer acceptable 30 May 2024 UN News/Anton Uspensky ITU's annual AI for Good Global Summit 2024, Geneva. With robots greeting delegates at the entrance to the venue, the AI for Good Global Summit opened on Thursday in Geneva, bringing together thousands of participants from all sectors around the world to discuss the hopes and…

Guterres honours service and sacrifice of UN peacekeepers

10 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres honours service and sacrifice of UN peacekeepers 30 May 2024 UN Photo/Mark Garten Secretary-General António Guterres (left) attends the wreath laying ceremony in honour of fallen Peacekeepers at the Peacekeeping Memorial at UN Headquarters. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday paid tribute to all peacekeepers serving under the UN flag and those who have died…

UN refugee chief urges Security Council to ‘step up’ for millions displaced by war

10 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN refugee chief urges Security Council to ‘step up’ for millions displaced by war 30 May 2024 UN Photo/Loey Felipe Security Council Hears Briefing by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees The UN High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday called on the Security Council to prevent millions more people from being displaced by war, violence and persecution…

SIDS go forward with ‘new sense of hope, solidarity and determination’

10 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home SIDS go forward with ‘new sense of hope, solidarity and determination’ 30 May 2024 UN News/Matt Wells Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (second left) at the closing of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island States (SIDS4) in Antigua and Barbuda. The roadmap towards achieving resilient prosperity for small island States adopted on Thursday in Antigua and Barbuda “marks the…

World News in Brief: Hunger grows in Haiti, Gaza aid blocked, World Potato Day

10 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Hunger grows in Haiti, Gaza aid blocked, World Potato Day 30 May 2024 © UNICEF/Herold Joseph في هايتي، يواجه ما يقرب من 1.6 مليون شخص مستويات حادة من انعدام الأمن الغذائي، مما يزيد من خطر الهزال وسوء التغذية بين الأطفال. As people in Haiti continue to deal with growing hunger, UN agencies are striving to deliver goods and services to populations in need…

Human rights experts highlight threats to journalists covering Iran

10 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Human rights experts highlight threats to journalists covering Iran 30 May 2024 联合国图片/Sylvain Liechti 教科文组织表示，新闻记者仍是一个危险的职业。与往年一样，2018-19年间，电视记者和本地媒体记者仍是暴力事件最主要的受害者。 UN independent human rights experts on Thursday condemned violence, threats and intimidation against Persian language journalists for their critical reporting on Iran…